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Official State Visits to Ireland, Greece
Media Release
25 May 2006
Governor-General Official
State Visits to Ireland and Greece
The
Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright will this weekend
travel to Ireland on an official state visit.
Dame Silvia's programme will include a State welcome, an official meeting with President McAleese and a State dinner.
From Ireland, Dame Silvia will travel to Greece for an official state visit. Again, she will receive a full State welcome, and she will hold talks with President Papoulias, as well as Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis.. She will also visit Crete where she will lay a wreath at the Commonwealth Graves Cemetery at Souda.
Following her visit to Greece, Dame Silvia will travel to London where she will attend a lunch with Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh.
While in London, she will attend a National Service of Thanksgiving to mark The Queen's 80 birthday, and she will also give an address at the NZ-UK Link Foundation.
During the absence of the Governor-General from 28 May to 21 June 2006, the Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias will act as Administrator of Government.
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